Posts tagged "oversharing"

There was a time not so long ago when famous folk wanted to create the illusion that they were NOT "just like us." Grace Kelly was never photographed buying jumbo packs of toilet paper! Audrey Hepburn describing where she was the day Aunt Flo first came to visit? HA! Nowadays many female stars, like Jennifer…

Newly returned to New York after a two-year sojourn abroad, I was eager to make friends (or more than friends), so I turned to my Facebook, FourSquare, Twitter, Tumblr, and OkCupid accounts. At some point, social media savvy became a legitimate dating skill and I was ready to showcase mine to the…

I think it's safe to say I don't have a future in politics, and if the climate stays the same -- where anything and everything from your past can and will be used against you or the person you love -- then any future spouse of mine doesn't either. For the last three years, I've…

There are real downsides to writing about your life on the internet. For one thing, "sharing" -- in the form of your deepest feelings or the most benign observations -- starts to become a knee-jerk reaction every time something happens. A particularly awesome development on "Lost"? Tweet your reaction during the commercial break. Feeling inexplicably…

Lately I've noticed a number of commenters remarking or complimenting me on my willingness to "put myself out there" on The Frisky, sometimes scolding others whose remarks or jokes might end up hurting my feelings. The thing is, there's very little feedback on what I write -- i.e., about my personal experience or my decisio…

Simply Irresistible

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…